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The problem is other people treating other people's hardware as their playground.

We've gone too long without a reckoning as software authors in this regard. You are not entitled to do whatever you wish with someone else's hardware because of a click through. Those that continue to do so will be (in my case) blacklisted from running on my network.



The user entitle software when they install it & give privileges. The issue has to be solved upstream. Instead of blaming software vendors, we have to build the systems to take back control.


Software that disregards the users wishes when you run it used to be called malware. An install is not an entitlement to do whatever you want. Software vendors are the ones writing this malware so why should they not be blamed.




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